Job 1:3

Job's vast livestock and household made him the greatest man in the East. His wealth shows the magnitude of the blessings later stripped away.

Cross-references · 21

• Job 42:12So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
• Job 29:25I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
• Judg 6:3So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.
• 1 Kgs 4:30Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• Num 23:7He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
• Prov 10:22Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
• Gen 12:16He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
• Gen 12:5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
• Job 29:9–10The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
• Gen 13:6The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
• Gen 29:1Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
• 2 Kgs 3:4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
• 1 Sam 25:2There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
• Num 31:32–34Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
• 2 Chr 32:29Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant posessions.
• Gen 34:23Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
• Judg 6:5For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.
• Gen 25:6but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
• 2 Chr 26:10He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
• Judg 8:10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
• Judg 7:12The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

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